Hugh Solomon Pictorial Africana Collection: Recent submissions
Now showing items 21-40 of 106
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Shipwreck at the Cape of Good Hope
Depicting Wolraad Woltemade’s act of heroism, saving drowning people from the ship, Jonge Thomas in Table Bay, 1773. -
Officers pack horses in patrol order; Kafir women
Depicting soldiers packing and mounting horses and a scene in a native village respectively. -
Cafers or Hottentots assembled for the admission of their youth to the state of manhood at the Cape of Good Hope
Scene depicting a ritual initiation. -
Vue du premontoir de bonne Esperance, avec le Port et chateaux au point d’Afrique, proche de la Montagne de table du Lion et du Diable
Shows Table Mountain printed in reverse, with Lion’s Head resembling a lion. -
Revd. J.T. van der Kemt, missionary
Portrait of Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, Dutch LMS missionary in South Africa. -
D. Baird
Portrait of Sir David Baird, British general and head of the troops who took over the Cape in 1806. -
A west view of the famous pass near the Cape of Good Hope, called Hottentot Hollands Kloffe
View of a pass in the Hottentots Holland mountains with a horse-drawn wagon and figures coming down the pass. -
Lieutenant General Sir George Wakelyn Harry Smith, K.C.B.
Portrait of Sir Harry Smith, Governor of the Cape Colony 1847-1852. -
Cape of Good Hope
A view of Table Bay with a prominent British ship and rowing boat in the foreground, with other ships, Cape Town and Table Mountain in the background. -
View of the Cape of Good Hope
Depicts Table Mountain, several buildings, with two ships in the foreground. -
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Simon’s Bay from the top of Red Hill Road
Depicts Simon’s Town with ships in the bay. Includes key to 30 important points of interest. -
St. Salvador, a Portuguese city on the River Lelunda in the Kingdom of Congo in Africa; The manner of travelling, as practiced by the people of Congo in Africa
Two engravings depicting African scenes. -
Gesig op Tafelbaai en Kaapstad vanaf die see, 5 seilskepe en ’n roeiboot in die voorgrond
A view of Table Bay and Cape Town with 5 sailing ships and a rowboat in the foreground. -
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Gezicht van de Kaap en deszelfs ree afgenoomen agter de tuin genaamd Oranjezigt agter de groote klip op de kliprug
View of Cape Town, Table Bay and Signal Hill from direction Oranjezicht. -
Ethiopian race
Group of African people in traditional dress, also depicting Zulu and Bechuana individuals. -
Oriental architecture, painted by Polly Chromy from the original sketch by Timothy Touch’em’off, Esq. and respectfully dedicated without permission to the Municipality of Grahamstown … by Chalkstone.
Depicts one male figure talking lively to two female figures next to a structure. Satirical piece.